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Hello all, I'm hoping to finish my basement to add an extra room for listening to music. The basement has brick walls. One corner has mold growing on it. When I bought the house I painted three coats of Dry Lock on the bricks walls and the mold is still forming on that corner. I installed a...

Hi all, Electrical newbie here. I have a question about dimmer switches. Recently, two dimmer switches malfunctioned within a month of each other. Would they have malfunctioned because they were wired wrong? I just replaced them today and the new ones seem to be working fine. The old ones...

I just got the home recently. I'd like to turn off the heater for the warm months. A few radiators leak and I need to reseat those connections. It's a gas heater with water filled radiators. Anyone know how to turn off the heater safely/ how to restart it? Anyone know how to drain the system so...

Can anyone identify what these pipes are for? It appears the set in the box is for the washer hookups and drain. I don't know what the other pope is for and why it has a foil seal on it.

I'm refinishing pine floors. I don't know what type of pine. I doubt the flooring guys knows either. The general contractor subcontracted the floors out. The sub seems like a nice guy but I'm a little unsure of his experience. He didn't say anything about filling the gaps with putty so I was...

Hi everybody. I need to paint this door trim really quickly for the bank. There's a little gap There where the siding fell way at the bottom left. how do you guys suggest I plug this hole? something really quick and easy would be great. I was thinking about cutting a price of plywood and placing...

Maybe someone can help. I had a rotted lateral cast iron pipe in the basement. A friend swapped out the cast iron for plastic. Now to the vertical cast iron pipe it was attached to is sinking. it has dropped about an inch. I went up the the first floor and wedged some wood under the pipping...

Hi all. New home owner here. Can anyone tell me how to change out this rotted pipe? It's green and leaking.